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March – what we have and what we hope for……

FNQG Meeting, March 10, 2018

Our emotions affect many things in our life. How we perceive events and things we see. The reverse is true also, the things we see and what happens in our lives bring on emotional responses. The amount of snow we received at retreat this past weekend evoked several emotions…. the beauty o nature freshly covered in a quilt of snow, thankfulness that we were warm and had electricity to keep sewing, trepidation about whether we’d be able to leave retreat to go home on Sunday. Did you know that colour can and does affect your emotions? Advertising and marketing experts use these principles all the time. Come on Saturday to learn from Ana about Colour as Emotions and see if you can find ways to use or create emotions in the colours of your quilts.

No Bah Humbug here…

December 9, 2017 Flying Needle Quilt Guild is celebrating Christmas and a successful Fall season of quilting. Come for a 9:30 start.

Show & Tell

Bring any projects you’ve been working on to show everyone how talented you are (and yes, each and everyone of you is talented!).

Our December guild meeting is early enough in the month that you can even show off things you need to ship away for Christmas.

Sharing your projects keeps everyone inspired and helps us get to know you better …. traditional, artsy, simple, or complex – all are wonderful to behold!

Gift Exchange

This year there were 2 options for gift exchange items:

table topper

tea cozy

You can participate in one or both exchanges (or none, but say it ain’t so).*

Important note about how to bring your exchange items to guild:

bring each item in its own plain gift bag (no need for elaborate decorations)

be sure that you’ve included a label with your name, the year, the occasion the item was made for, and anything else you want to include

a tag will be provided when you come

The rest you’ll find out about when the exchange happens

Potluck

Don’t forget to bring your favourite potluck dish or concoction! Everyone gets really hungry about this time of year. Potluck items can be dropped off in the kitchen when you arrive. Nothing says holiday like sharing a meal with a large group of like-minded people, whether they be family or quilting cohorts.

Set Up and Clean Up Crew

Mary D, Dianne M, Suzanne D. If we could get a few more people to perhaps come early and help out that would be awesome!

November 18, 2017

Please wait until you see the previous group leave before entering the building.

What to bring…

Primary, Secondary and Tertiary colours

Your colour wheel (from week 1)

Paper scissors

Magazines to cut up (2 or 3)

Glue Stick

Small cutting Mat

Small ruler

Set-up & Clean-up crew: Linda B, Kevin G, Janet M, and Janice W

A request was received to review what the responsibilities of set up & clean up are. These can be found int he meetings tab of the website but here is a reminder.

Set Up Information

If you are on Set Up here are some guidelines. Remember you are expected to stay the majority of the day (till 4pm at the latest)

Please arrive at 8:45 a.m. (Nov 18, 2017 excluded)

Please make Coffee– Directions for making the coffee are on the side of the fridge and the access to the usable water is in the lower cupboard to the right of the sink (Don’t use the tap water, it won’t poison us, it just doesn’t taste very good.)

Please bring cream and milk for coffee and tea, and some snacks.

Put a table out in the main lobby and place name tags on it. If possible position one of the group there as a greeter once people start arriving (name tags are in a plastic box in the cupboard directly behind the kitchen door).

Set up the tables for the sewing – The tables are located in the closet off the area outside the kitchen.

Return the tables and chairs to their original position at the end of the day. – They should be returned to their original places at the conclusion of the day.

Do the Dishes at the end of the day – Dishes should be washed and put away and the coffee emptied before the church is locked up.

November Notables

And you thought your clocks was the only thing we pushed back in November this year. 🙂

The FNQG will meet November 18, 2017 at 10:30. Please don’t enter the building until you see the previous group leaving.

November Meeting agenda:

Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Colour Workshop

Show and Tell

those that went to Quilt Retreat don’t forget to show us what you accomplished there

Those that didn’t attend Retreat we’d love to see what you’re working on

Sew in the afternoon

**Supply list for November meeting will be posted next week.**

Set-up & Clean-up crew: Linda B, Kevin G, Janet M, and Janice W

October’s workshop topic: ColourTransparency

We discovered what happens to colours when you add white or when you add black. Sounds easy but it turned out to be a bit more challenging than we thought at first. Using the colour wheels we made in September really helped.

Alberta Quilt Study upcoming events

Our documentation day is Sunday, November 12th at the St Andrews Heights Community Hall, Calgary. Please contact me to set up an appointment if you have a quilt to be documented or if you would like to come and volunteer – no experience necessary – we would love to see you.

Our next Quilt-a-long will be held Monday, November 13th at the St Andrews Heights Community Hall. Come and work on your own project – RSVP

We are very excited to present Sandra Sawatzky “The Black Gold Tapestry” at our membership meeting.RSVP by Friday, November 24th – guests are welcome.

10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ~ join the Board for a Sit and Sew, where you can work on a UFO, start something new, or just sit and get to know your fellow AB QSS members for a few hours

12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.~ enjoy a light lunch provided by AB QSS

1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.~Membership Meeting ~ Alberta Quilt Study Society is pleased to present…Sandra Sawatzsky! Join us and meet Sandra Sawatzky, Calgary artist and maker of The Black Gold Tapestry showing at Glenbow October 7, 2017 to May 2018. She will be giving a presentation on her work. The stunning hand-embroidered illustrative tapestry is an epic 220-feet long (about 2 city blocks) and tells the story of how oil impacted human civilizations around the world, from the beginning of time to present day. Sawatzky took a hiatus from filmmaking to spend nine years, researching, drawing, writing and embroidering her “film on cloth”.

Fall Our year will be all about colour! You will get to show your true colours, pass with flying colours but never be off colour. Join us as we travel somewhere over the rainbow where our needles fly! September 9: … Continue reading →

Thank you very much for your interest in these organizations that do so much good for children and adults experiencing serious challenges and hardship in their lives.

If you have a finished quilt you would like to donate, I have contacts for all these agencies, and if you have a quilt top that you would like to donate, the Comfort Quilt Committee will certainly make sure it gets finished and passed on according to your wishes. Feel free to call or send me an e-mail if you have any questions.